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"I don't know if he said John the Baptist; but it was John, anyway. And they say or that's what Sally hearn tell that when he was off with Enraghty and Hingston on some 'pointments down round Seneca there was doun's that 'uld make your hair stand up." "You don't happen to know just what the doings were?" "Well, no, I don't, Squire. But they was doun's to deceive the very elec', from all I hearn."
They ain't a man here that 'uld dare to try and cross it when the sea's breakin' on it. The man that says he would, lies!" And he looked at the foreman, and waited a moment.
His entire possessions consisted of the ground we have mentioned, most part of which was so rocky as to be entirely useless a cow, a couple of pigs, and the "the uld cabin," which consisted of four mud walls, covered with thatch, in which was an opening, "to let in the day-light, an' to let out the smoke."
Lanty immediately did so, and aided him to sit nearly upright in the bed. "The tumbler, Lanty Lanty, my lad, 'let us eat, drink, and be mer ry, for to-mor row we die; here's the glor , pio , and immor I, memo , hi-p, hi-p-p! And now I swore th at I wo uld die whistling it, and by that oath I will." He then looked around, and seemed to recover himself a little.
Dey wasn't 'lowed to go of'en in dose days 'cause de yallow fevah was dere; but when de sailor boys got a chance dey would slip sof'ly down de side an' strike out fur de shoah. Tom, he know dis custom, an' he kep sharp eye on de boys, an' I 'shure yo' sah, dat dat shahk gobbled up moah seamen dan 'uld fill de bigges' ob de Queen's men-ob-wah.
"And the groom's got no eyes for any one else. Gee! Don't her clothes fit, though?" "It's her figger fits," laughed the fat porter, with an unctuous chuckle. "Coffee sacks 'uld look well on her." Mr. Barrington soon put them on the right path for their legal quest, and before noon they were following a turnkey along a dim stone corridor, which led to the hospital cell where Lozcoski was confined.
But in the midst of this desolation, his deep set coal black eyes sparkled like two diamonds with the fever of his sufferings; there was a fearful fascination in their flashing brightness, contrasted with the deathlike aspect of the face, and rigidity of the frame. When sensible of our presence he tried to speak, but uld only utter a low moaning sound.
On the other hand, the ability to swim exposes you to many risks you w|uld never have run had you been helpless in the water. You swim in perilous places, you go out too far and cannot get back, you expose yourself to the possibilities of cramp, you try to save other people's lives and lose your own.
"Oh," said Naggeneen, "I just took all the cream and the most of the milk from their cow, and you yourself had a share of it, as you know well; and I put a charm on their pig, so that it wouldn't get fat, no matter how much it 'uld be atin'; and then I druv the smoke of their fire down the chimney, and I threw the dishes and the pans around in the night, just so they wouldn't get lazy wid restin' too well, and a few more little things like that."
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